Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey, born David Edward Smikle ( born 1953 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, USA) is an American photographer who since the 1970s with his large- format color photos of adolescents and very often at the margins of society crowded people was known.
Life
Smikle changed his name early 1970s Dawoud Bey in. He studied 1977/1978 at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in New York City. In 1990 he completed the Professional Photography with the exam with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Empire State College, State University of New York. In 1993 he obtained the degree of MFA at the School of Art at Yale University.
Bey now lives in Chicago, Illinois and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.
Style and themes
Bey worked from the beginning in environments to which he could count yourself as African- Americans. So his five- year project Harlem USA was created in the years from 1975 until 1979. 2003 saw the Chicago Project and 2004, the Detroit Portraits. During a fellowship stay at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover (Massachusetts ), he photographed students who came from different public and private schools, to possibly determine any differences in these. Other stays at Addison and other places resulted in 2007 in his exhibition Class Pictures and published by the Aperture Foundation.